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Genesis 1:2

But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

In Context

1In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

3And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

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Cross References

Job 26:14Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ it?

Psalms 33:6This poor man cried, and the Lord listened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions. 1

Psalms 104:30Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings. 1

Isaiah 45:18Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that + 45:18 Gr. showed. created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.

Nahum 2:10There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:2-3

Genesis to Deuteronomy PREFACE Genesis to Deuteronomy Though it is most my concern, that I be able to give a good account to God and my own conscience, yet, perhaps, it will be expected that I give the world also some account of this bold undertaking; which I shall endeavour to do with all plainness, and as one who believes, that if men must be reckoned with in the great day, for every vain and idle word they speak, much more for every vain and idle line they write. And it may be of use, in the first place, to lay… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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